"I've
been making a lot of art lately....flowing out of me. And this coming
as I'd been feeling really stuffed up with, like literally, with the
belief that I simply couldn't get past the block. Here is what I said
about it in the middle of December:
"So
here's what's up...I'm feeling stuck in my creative flow. I can feel
the edges of what's waiting for me to engage in. It's bold, playful
and outrageous, can't quite be defined and I'm scared shitless to
unleash it."
I
kept letting that outrageousness work on me, feeling it's intensity.
Man, what a huge wanting to simply be in the world-no apologies.
That
wanting brought me to a cross roads. I either had to go into what was
holding me back, the anger, the fear etc or back off. Simple. So with
the bold and outrageous help in the form of the inspired Rebecca
Pell I
got it. We wrestled with those demons and with that, a kind of
outrageous, playful joy spilled into my system and I started making
things.
I'm
calling these pieces my Chaos Into Order series. I have plans to get
things going on my website/blog but that hasn't happened yet so
here's what I have for now."
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These
pieces were edgy and surprising to make. I wanted to get out of the
mindset that certain pieces or parts of pieces were precious. I kept
building on what came underneath, risking that I might cover up
something sweet-that I liked or that I didn't want to lose. At times
it only seemed like a chaotic mess as I kept at it, spreading paint
around with a rag. And then I'd go in with just a bit of a more
defining line and things would come together, suddenly united. I also
started using a different kind of painting tool-a squeeze bottle of
thin paint that I could sling around Jackson Pollack style. Very
unpredictable and really tested my resolve to keep things from
getting too mechanical.
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